Re: userspace servers and /tmp/.X11-unix permissions/owners
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 03:09:26AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 04:04:19PM -0800, Chris Waters wrote:
> > So, when I tried to run startx, I got a complaint that the permissions
> > on /tmp/.X11-unix were "suspicious". Turns out that the permissions
> > were fine ("drwxrwxrwt"), but the dir was owned by "aaron:aaron",
> > rather than "root:root".
> There's a different error message for that:
Interesting. Neither of those messages seem right, but I'm going from
memory here. I'll try to recreate the problem when I have a little time.
> > So, I was wondering: is there a reason that the XFree86 server can't
> > just chown the directory, in the case where the permissions are fine
> > but the owner is wrong? Because otherwise, there seems to be an
> > impasse of sorts.
> Symlink attacks.
Dammit, that even makes sense. Well, if this were C, I could devise
an easy workaround. But since it's shell, I dunno. I'll have to look
into it. Crap. Thanks.
cheers
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